Pololu USB AVR - Manual (Page 18)

As your USB AVR Programmer programs the AVR, you should see all three LEDs flicker and you should see the
following text appear at the bottom of the window:
Erasing device... OK
Programming Flash...OK
Verifying Flash...OK
If there were no problems, the LED connected to PD1 of your AVR should now be flashing! Note that if you are
trying this on a 3pi robot and you have not yet soldered in the optional through-hole LEDs, the flashing LED will be
on the bottom of the robot. If there was a problem, please see Troubleshooting (
Section 8 ) for help identifying and
fixing it.
3.b.1. Adding Devices to Atmel Studio 6
While the older AVR Studio 4 supports
programming a large number of
different
AVRs with
STK500-compatible programmers such
as the Pololu USB AVR Programmer,
Atmel
Studio 6 only supports
programming a small selection of
devices by default. If you would like to
program a device that is not supported
by default using Atmel Studio, you will
need to add an XML file to one of
Atmel Studio’s directories.
1. Navigate to the directory where
you installed Atmel Studio and find the
tools\STK500\xml
subdirectory. By default, on a 64-bit computer this
will be
C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Atmel Studio 6.1\tools\STK500\xml
.
2. Right click on ATmega168_stk500.xml and select Edit to open it in Notepad.
3. Replace all occurrences of “ATmega168” in the file with the name of the device you want to program.
The device name you type should exactly match the name of one of the XML files in Atmel Studio’s
devices
subdirectory, for example “ATmega328P”.
4. In the File menu, select Save As… and save it as
DEVICENAME_stk500.xml
where
DEVICENAME
is the same
device name that you entered into the file, for example ATmega328P_stk500.xml .
5. Restart Atmel Studio. A new entry for your device should now be visible in the Device drop down box of the
Device Programming dialog. This should allow you to program HEX files onto that device from Atmel Studio
using the Pololu USB AVR Programmer.
Pololu USB AVR Programmer User's Guide © 2001–2014 Pololu Corporation
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